Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7211187 | Mobile or stationary modular self-contained dehydration toilet, dehydration engine, and gray water recovery system A compact dehydration engine and method for treating human waste and gray water residual electro-coagulants that includes a heated waste dehydration chamber that has low energy consumption and low water consumption in use. The system can be employed in stationary or... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7203976 | Floor level waste pumping system for toilets A floor level pumping system, that is non-disruptive to the existing flooring, including a conventional rear outlet toilet, a floor level tank for receiving waste and fluid from the outlet of the toilet including a tank chamber containing a designated area with a se... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7014778 | Device and method for treating waste product A method and device are provided for treating a waste water waste-product mixture from a toilet by coupling the toilet to a waste product mixture to a waste product holding tank, connecting the tank with a vacuum container having a stirring member for breaking up th... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7011634 | Urine sample collection device A urine collection device includes a support apparatus for supporting the urine collection device on a toilet. An attachment section attaches to a sample holder and a collection section receives and directs urine into the sample holder. ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6964846 | Methods for detecting nucleic acids indicative of cancer The invention provides methods for screening tissue or body fluid samples for nucleic acid indicia of cancer or precancer. Method are provided for screening a patient for cancer or precancer by detecting the presence of nucleic acid fragments that are longer ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6957450 | Standardized recreational vehicle sanitary system A sanitary system including a toilet adapted for use in a recreational vehicle, and a recreational vehicle including the toilet and sanitary system. The sanitary system includes a horizontally offset waste storage receptacle to be installed in a stowage compartment ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6911308 | Methods for detecting, grading or monitoring an H. pylori infection The present invention provides methods for determining the status of an H. pylori infection by detecting a high-integrity H. pylori nucleic acid in a patient sample. ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6782561 | Standardized recreational vehicle sanitary system A sanitary system including a toilet adapted for use in a recreational vehicle, and a recreational vehicle including the toilet and sanitary system. The sanitary system includes a horizontally offset waste storage receptacle to be installed in a stowage compartment ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6434762 | Stool collecting apparatus A stool collecting apparatus is simple in construction and inexpensive to manufacture and provides an easy to use and contamination free apparatus for collecting a stool sample. The device includes a disposable strip spanning at least a width of a toilet ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6415455 | Stool specimen collector The invention provides an apparatus for obtaining a stool specimen. The apparatus comprises a housing, a collection bag, a slider to close the collection bag and a draw string to move the slider. A user places the apparatus on a toilet, deposits a first s... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6351857 | Stool specimen collector An apparatus for obtaining a stool specimen. The apparatus comprises a housing, a collection bag, a slider to close the collection bag and a draw string to move the slider. A user places the apparatus on a toilet, deposits a first stool into the collectio... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6212698 | Urine collection kit A urine collection kit includes a flexible mounting strip positioned atop the toilet bowl rim for clamping thereto by the toilet seat. A plastic bag is attached to the mounting strip and depends into the toilet bowl upon strip clamping. Urine flow is dire... | 04/10/2001 |
| 5901385 | Dry type toilet system A dry type toilet system which includes a toilet bowl, the toilet bowl having a hinged clamping ring adapted for clamping on a rim thereof to hold a poly bag therein in an open status for collecting waste matter discharged from a person sitting on the toi... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5848443 | Portable automobile urinal An automobile urinal having a portable elevated flushing solution container, a portable bowl, (which when in use is positioned in the seat) and a portable disposable collecting bladder. The flushing solution container and the disposable collecting bladder... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5704076 | Controlled toilet flushing system A toilet tank flush valve for use in the demand mode, and which includes a discharge control and closure valve for controlling the flow of water from the tank or reservoir to the bowl, and with the valve further having a generally cylindrical configuratio... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5671485 | Support device for emptying colostomy bag A device which is specifically adapted to support a colostomy bag over the opening of a toilet. This device, which facilitates the cleaning of the bag by a user or a care giver, includes a support formed from a metallic wire. This metallic wire support ha... | 09/30/1997 |
| 4521520 | Method for in house occult blood testing A method for determining the presence of occult blood in the bowl of a toilet includes the steps of suspending from the seat of the toilet an absorbent test sheet carrying a test reagent, defecating onto said sheet, flipping said sheet over to deposit the... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4439875 | Toilet A portable toilet having an improved valve arrangement for minimizing abrasion of the holding tank inlet seal. The valve arrangement includes a valve member which moves generally normal to a sealing plane defined by the seal when the valve is opened or cl... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4343053 | Disposable bedpan liner A disposable bedpan liner in accordance with one aspect of the invention includes an elongated liquid impervious flexible sleeve having oppositely disposed open ends. The mouth of the liner is defined at one end of such sleeve and has first handle means a... | 08/10/1982 |
| 3942196 | Disposable bedpan insert The invention provides a disposable insert for a bed-pan or commode, said insert having a seat-portion for fitting over the peripheral area of the supporting member, and within said seat-portion an aperture forming an opening into the receptacle portion o... | 03/09/1976 |
